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  • pasty_march1

    Cornish marched against another Tax on Cornish Culture

    Posted on 2 May 2012 | No Comments
    Quoting Edward Rowe, aka ‘Kernow King’, from his item in the Guardian newspaper of Monday 30th April, and alluding to the 1497 Cornish Uprising march, against the King’s Taxes among other grievances: “On 29 April 2012, an uprising against the so-called “pasty tax” resulted in...
  • sick_as_a_parrot

    Sick as a Parrot – an open letter

    Posted on 6 April 2012 | No Comments
    Sick as a Parrot – an open letter Dear Sir, Those who voted Conservative on the basis of statements by George Eustace and other Tories that the figures in the Labour governments regional spatial strategy were ‘bonkers’ must be ‘sick as a parrot’ over the...
  • celticcleague

    [Celtic League] Pasty Tax Not Welcome in Kernow!

    Posted on 1 April 2012 | No Comments
    In 1497 Myghal Josef an Gof and Thomas Flamank marched to London with thousands of other Cornish people in armed revolt over what were perceived as unfair tax rises that the King of England had imposed on the Cornish to pay for his war with...
  • Assembly_petit

    10 Years on – Petition for a Cornish Assembly

    Posted on 16 December 2011 | 1 Comment
    Councillor Cole said that “Today (10 December, 2011) marks the tenth anniversary of the presentation of 50,000 Declarations for a Cornish Assembly to 10 Downing Street. Getting over 50,000 people to show their support for a Cornish Assembly in less than twenty months was a truly...
  • Assembly_petit

    Plaid Cymru Westminster motion for a Cornish Assembly

    Posted on 16 December 2011 | No Comments
    Mebyon Kernow leader, Dick Cole, has reported  “I am pleased to report that yesterday (12 December, 2011) in the House of Commons, our good friends in Plaid Cymru tabled an Early Day Motion (no. 2532) marking the tenth anniversary of the 50,000 declarations, further calling...
  • sixtyth

    [Mebyon Kernow] Conference 2011 next weekend

    Posted on 15 November 2011 | No Comments
    Mebyon Kernow’s 2011 Conference takes place this weekend, the 19th and 20th November, at the Shire House Suite in Bodmin. It will mark MK’s 60th anniversary as an organisation. On 19 and 20 November , the Conference will feature leading members of Mebyon Kernow and...
  • Mebyon_Kernow

    Mebyon Kernow national conference next month

    Posted on 27 October 2011 | No Comments
    You’ve had the London Parties national conferences and their excesses and irrelevancies, and the ground-breaking SNP conference just last week – but now … The Mebyon Kernow – Party for Cornwall, wants you to help build a better Cornwall. It is only four weeks to...
  • punchTV

    Cornwall misses out on a broadcast TV station

    Posted on 24 August 2011 | No Comments
    Cornwall misses out on a broadcast TV station The Westminster government Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s local TV plan recently unveiled the  location of 65 potential local broadcast TV stations across the UK including nine in the nation of Scotland, six in Wales, and surprise, none...
  • proud

    Australian Census 2011 – Yes, the Cornish count!

    Posted on 27 July 2011 | No Comments
    It is now Australia’s Census time, and yes the Cornish need to be counted! Cornish born, or with Cornish men or women in your ancestry? Now is the time to be counted, along with an estimated 300,000 Australians, on Australia’s Census night, Tuesday August 9,...
  • perrantide

    Will St Piran’s Day become a Cornish national bank holiday?

    Posted on 26 July 2011 | 2 Comments
    A petition to Cornwall Council for St Piran’s Day, Gol Peran, the 5th March, to become a Duchy-wide official holiday was started by the Celtic League in February this year and has drawn nearly 8,000 signatures. It is under consideration by the Council. Many others...
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